Hello out there:
This is my fist posting to "Roots Chat"; my query to cathymcc about Thomas Henry NOTLEY got this thread started. I'm
VERY impressed by the helpful responses!!
I've a social comment on the last posting, regarding the tragedy of children raised in a workhouse.
It's very clear that Elizabeth Notley, the Luton lodger in the 1861 census, was raised in a workhouse. In the 1841 census she's a 2 year old "inmate" in the Bedfod Union workhouse; in the 1851 census she's a 12 year old "inmate" in a workhouse in Cambridgeshire.
No surprise, then, that at age 22 she's an unwed Mum with a 1 year old daughter, and she's probably a clever brat. Nonetheless as a great-grandpa-of-8 I can't help but think I'd want to put my arms around her and tell her that we loved her and that she should come live with us. Pretty sappy, eh? Poor kid must have had a tough life in those Blake-ian 'dark satanic mills' days.
Two questions:
1. What's the actual wording of her occupation on the 1861 census (see attached image that I hope shows up)? The previous posting says it means bonnet maker.
2. I can't get the picture to show up on my profile, using the third "browse to your image file" option. It's small enough (less than 500 Kb). Any ideas?